Early hours of wednesday before tapering off. We then have another storm moving through wednesday afternoon into thursday morning. Highs stay mid50s wednesday before dropping down around 50 degrees for the rest of the week and the weekend. Lows drop from around 40 to the mid30s as soon as the weekend. Slight shower chances remain for thursday through sunday. A celebrity is now weighing in on an officer involved a celebrity is now weighing in on an officer involved shooting that happened here in the valley on new years eve. Rapper the game posted about several officer involved shootings on both instagram and twitter today including the one here. Saying officers who shot Keith Childress 19 times for holding a cellphone they thought was a gun, are free. Childress family tells fox5 they appreciate the rappers support. Just yesterday metro Police Released body camera video from the shooting of Keith Childress. Police say they thought he was holding a gun, but it was his cell phone. And when
President s plan. President obama is once again going to abuse his power. When im elected president , on the first day, behind my desk, those orders are gone. Critics say the orders go to far. And circumvent congress. A local Gun Store Owner says he likes some of the ideas. But others just hurt good citizens who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Fox fives Elizabeth Watts is live at tropicana near eastern with more of that side of the argument. Gun stores like this one already have all kinds of licenses and perform background checks. But the owner says it will hurt all gun owners and sellers. Bob irwin says getting a license is easier said than done. Its not just a fee and a piece of paper. But when you get a license to sell guns it triggers all kinds of things you must do. Like county licensing. State licensing. Liability insurance. Etc. He also says a lot of people go to private sellers for guns to save money on background checks. He says good people who want to arm them
News this morning. First Cassandra Jones joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Cassandra jones with fox5. We get a brief break between systems with showers returning by this afternoon and evening with rain continuing overnight into thursday. We will pick up strong afternoon wind 15 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph possible. This next system isnt packing as much moisture to rain totals arent expected to be as impressive but it will be colder will drop our temps into thursday morning bringing the possibility of snow flurries to some valley locations. We have a Winter Weather advisories for the mountains for snow levels dropping down to 4000ft by thursday morning with 36 inches possible above 5000ft higher amounts in higher terrain. Highs are expected to stay in the low50s through the week. Here is a look at your drive here is a look at your drive out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate rou
Good morning im Cassandra Jones with fox5. We get a brief break between systems with showers returning by this afternoon and evening with rain continuing overnight into thursday. We will pick up strong afternoon wind 15 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph possible. This next system isnt packing as much moisture to rain totals arent expected to be as impressive but it will be colder will drop our temps into thursday morning bringing the possibility of snow flurries to some valley locations. We have a Winter Weather advisories for the mountains for snow levels dropping down to 4000ft by thursday morning with 36 inches possible above 5000ft higher amounts in higher terrain. Highs are expected to stay in the low50s through the week. Traffic solutions here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps here are your photos for the day back to th
Everything is running smoothly again at the airport this all the rain and fog made for a real headache for travelers many people worried they would arrive late to ces which starts today. This is what the airport looked like just before midnight. Packed with people. There was an average delay of about four hours for incoming flights because of the rain and cloud cover yesterday. Some incoming flights were even cancelled. Mccarran says yesterday is normally one of the busiest days of the year right before ces. Breaking overnight. A terrifying situation for firefighters. Who were forced to knock down. Wall after wall. Looking for storage unit. Action News Reporter Parker Collins is there live near sahara and lamb. Parker kind of a scary situation. It really was. It took firefighters about 15 minutes just to find the fire. It started in one of the Storage Units after midnight. But these buildings are metal clad. Meaning poor air circulation. They also have individual roll up doors. They ha